The Hidden Hitler

Author: Lothar Machtan

Persues Press, 2001

This is a serious book by a German historian about why Hitler may have been
motivated to do away with a number of those killed during the so-called "Night of the Long Knives" in June,1934,
including Ernst Roehm (Röhm). Dr. Machtan does not try to prove anything. He paints
a picture of Hitler's close relationship with Roehm in the 1920s and the battle
to distance the Nazis from homosexuality in the 1930s – an anti-gay move led
by Joseph Goebbels. Machtan is fair rather than wild and sensational in his
approach, painting an interesting picture of goings-on in Germany after World
War I.

Lothar Machten is an assistant professor of History at Bremen University.